Son House - The Original Delta Blues (Mega Blowout Sale)
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"The Original Delta Blues is a really fine distillation of the label's..highlights ...of blues legend Eddie "Son" House's 60s recordings.
These 55 minutes of music feature Son House and his National steel guitar, which he played with a slide, and Columbia have managed to include all of House's essential 60s songs.
The powerful a capella spiritual "John The Revelator" is here, as is the slashing slide guitar workout "Pearline", the sarcastic "Preachin' Blues", the bitterness of "Grinnin' In Your Face", and the fantastic 9 1/2-minute "Levee Camp Moan" with Canned Heat's Alan Wilson playing great harmonica fills behind House's clanging, percussive guitar riffs.
And then there's the awesome, razor-edged "Death Letter" ("I got a letter this morning / say, what d'y'reckon it read? / Said hurry, hurry, the gal you love is dead").
Music journalist Ted Drozdowski of the Boston Phoenix once wrote something like this about House: "The voice of the great Son House not only sounds as though it could split the earth asunder, it is also the voice of a soul utterly alone".
I couldn't have said it better myself. Which is why I steal Mr Drozdowski's line."